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Ch 12 Marketing Mix: Place, Promotion and Legal Controls: complete notes

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Topics in this chapter

1. 3.3.3 Place
2. 3.3.3 Recommending and justifying a distribution channel
3. 3.3.4 Promotion
4. Methods of sales promotion
5. Methods of advertising
6. 3.3.4 Recommending and justifying promotion methods
7. 3.3.5 Ecommerce
8. 3.3.6 Marketing strategy
9. 3.3.7 Entering new markets in other countries
10. 3.4 Legal controls related to marketing
11. 3.4.1 The effects of legal controls on marketing

“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do

• compare four distribution channels and recommend one
• calculate prices along a channel and cost per person reached
• explain reasons for promotion
• tell sales promotion and advertising methods apart and recommend each
• explain advantages and disadvantages of ecommerce for businesses and customers
• recommend a consistent marketing mix for a target market
• weigh entering a new market in another country
• explain the purpose and effects of legal controls on marketing

What is inside the full chapter notes

• Concept notes, figures and 8 worked examples (calculations and model answers)
• Exam skills for Papers 1 and 2; common mistakes from the examiner report
• 20 quick-check multiple-choice questions, explained
• Two Paper 1 style questions and one Paper 2 style case-study question, all with full mark schemes
• Quick-reference table, "I can" checklist

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• All 23 chapters of the Cambridge IGCSE Business 0264 syllabus (exams 2027–2029): business activity and sectors, enterprise and growth, types of organisation, objectives and stakeholders, human resources, organisation and management, communication, motivation, marketing, market research, the marketing mix, production and technology, sustainability and quality, costs and break-even, location, finance, cash flow, financial statements and ratios, and the economic, international, environmental and ethical influences on business
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All chapters in this pack

1. Ch 1 Business Activity and Economic Sectors
2. Ch 2 Enterprise, Business Growth and Size
3. Ch 3 Types of Business Organisation
4. Ch 4 Business Objectives and Stakeholders
5. Ch 5 Human Resource Management
6. Ch 6 Organisation and Management
7. Ch 7 Methods of Communication
8. Ch 8 Motivating Employees
9. Ch 9 Marketing and the Market
10. Ch 10 Market Research
11. Ch 11 Marketing Mix: Product and Price
12. Ch 12 Marketing Mix: Place, Promotion and Legal Controls
13. Ch 13 Production and Technology
14. Ch 14 Sustainable Production and Quality
15. Ch 15 Costs, Scale of Production and Break-even
16. Ch 16 Location Decisions
17. Ch 17 Business Finance
18. Ch 18 Cash Flow Forecasts
19. Ch 19 Profit and Loss and the Statement of Financial Position
20. Ch 20 Analysis of Accounts
21. Ch 21 Economic Issues
22. Ch 22 Business and the International Economy
23. Ch 23 Environmental and Ethical Issues and Pressure Groups